Angola: 2007 growth in IT sector

Angola: Retrospect - IT Sector Evolved in 2007
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Angola recorded in 2007 a great growth in the sector of information and communication technologies, in which digital facility is accessible to all citizens and the access to Internet is no longer a problem.Available data indicate that about 3 million citizens are connected to Internet and are cell phone users ... Today, the urban centres are seen as more included, because the advances in mobile phones has enabled many people to have access to Internet, which did not happen before. Currently, for example, in almost all the quarters of Luanda City there is a Cyber Café, which causes the increase in the number of Internet users, although the number of citizens that have personal computers is still low. The Portal do Governo (Government Portal) project, inaugurated in 2006, has also developed in terms of the governmental services made available for citizens, as well as in contents and information ... As a result of the various projects in the field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa awarded the Angolan Government the Tiiga Prize in 2007 ...